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Welcome to Melanoma Patients Australia Ltd

Welcome to Melanoma Patients Australia. We hope that you find the available information useful and contact with other patients comforting and inspiring. The aim of the website is to provide melanoma patients, their family and friends with information about melanoma and its treatment options, as well as providing a support network to nurture them through difficult times.
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What's it like?

What's it like to have a CT scan?

Computed tomography (CT) is a medical imaging method employing tomography. Digital geometry processing is used to generate a three-dimensional image of the inside of an object from a large series of two-dimensional X-ray images taken around a single axis of rotation. The word "tomography" is derived from the Greek tomos (slice) and graphein (to write).
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Survivor Stories

Sharon's Story

I was 37 weeks pregnant with my second child when I found a lump in my neck while cooking dinner. I knew it was not a good place for a lump because my doctor has felt this area every time I have had a check up since I had a melanoma removed from my shoulder two years ago in August 2007. The melanoma I had removed was 0.33mm thick, un-ulcerated and it had a slow cell division rate - extremely low risk apparently and to be honest I didn't really even feel like I had been told I had cancer at the time....